James J. Sejvar MD

Dr. Sejvar is a neurologist and epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After completing undergraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, he received his MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 1996, internal medicine training at Pittsburgh’s Mercy Medical Center, and completed a residency in neurology at the Mayo Clinic. He joined CDC in 2000, first as a fellow in infectious disease epidemiology in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, then as a staff epidemiologist in the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases and Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne, and Enteric Diseases.
Dr. Sejvar’s research interests focus on the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and outcome of infections of the central nervous sytem. In recent years he has focused much of his work on the clinical syndromes and outcomes associated with West Nile virus and other arthropod-borne viral infections.